Using Tor may actually draw attention - especially if you run a node. People have been busted for the traffic of OTHERS running through their nodes. It's an interesting fight if you are concerned about privacy and freedom of speech. But if you're just looking for a way to do illegal stuff, it's bad news. (Though I'm sure many-a-hacker hath found solace in Tor) If you just don't want your small town ISP knowing that you look at totally legal T & A, well... more power to ya. I am no expert, but this is what I have picked up through this forum and articles on Digg.

Re: HOW TO surf anonymous

Ok. basically I followed everything in the tutorial, and when I visit the URL www.watismijnip.nl I get a different IP address than I did before installing privoxy and tor. However, upon visiting this site www.whatsmyip.org/ It gives me the same number it did before I installed and configured the software. Whats up? Does tor only fools some sites?

Re: HOW TO surf anonymous

Hi, I'm new to this and I have been trying to get it to work. I have the toolbar and a proxy set up, but when I check it at http://www.watismijnip.nl/ it still gives me the same IP address. What am I not doing right here?

Re: HOW TO surf anonymous

Originally Posted by rexmundy

Hi, I'm new to this and I have been trying to get it to work. I have the toolbar and a proxy set up, but when I check it at http://www.watismijnip.nl/ it still gives me the same IP address. What am I not doing right here?

i haven't read through this thread so i don't know anything about a toolbar, but maybe you forgot to chain privoxy with TOR and your browser is just connecting straight to the site without going through privoxy.

if you want to be sure to be anonymous you have to be careful about your browser making direct connections through java applets and flash, you can either disable javascipt and java, or make them go through privoxy.

Last edited by ice60; December 7th, 2007 at 04:35 PM.

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Re: HOW TO surf anonymous

An alternative method to secure browsing:

1. install SQUID and "ssh" on home machine with Synaptic ( for the time being, just enable "http allow all" in the squid.conf )
2. Setup a Secure tunnel from your machine to your home machine using Putty.exe .
3. Point webbrowser at the local port that Putty listens on.

all web traffic is piped from your browser through putty to your home sshd daemon (port 22) and forwarded to squid on your home machine.

Re: HOW TO surf anonymous

As mentioned earlier, it's wise to know that Tor doesn't protect your data. Data traffic through exit nodes is easily monitored. Using accounts with a login/passwd without any encryption can be a bad idea with privoxy installed.